The Insane Plan to Build a Mountain in the Netherlands

The Netherlands is famous for being one of the flattest countries on earth about half of the land of the entire country is at or below 1 meter above sea level and 25% percent of the countries land is at or even below sea level this can be seen more obviously when you look at a relief map of the country like this one Most of the land here in the north is flat the land in the center has some low rolling hills and the highest part of the country is here in the south at just 322m above sea level where the land rises slightly into the foot hills of the Ardennes mountains So based on what i just told you there is no such thing as a mountain in the Netherlands we’ve constructed over 50 buildings that are taller than the tallest point in the country. but that hasn’t stopped a few eccentric dutch from dreaming it is been said that god may have created the world but the Dutch created the Netherlands building an entire mountain seems unrealistic until you consider what else the Dutch have already done like their so far victorious centuries long war against the ocean between 1200 and 1900 the Dutch people managed to reclaim 940 thousand acres of land from the sea and an additional 345 thousand acres by draining their lakes but the craziest thing they’ve probably done was just last century when they transformed an entire ocean bay into two fresh water lakes and reclaimed enough land from it to add another province into the Netherlands called Flevoland the Dutch claimed enough land from the sea by doing this that it was twice the size of Singapore and this amazing feat of engineering led some to speculate about what else they might be capable of achieving and thus we arrive in 2011 and encounter a man named Thijs Zonneveld who first proposed the idea to build the mountain in a news column Zonneveld suggested that the flat Netherlands needed a mountain 2 kilometers tall and 5 kilometers wide such a huge geographic feature he argued would greatly benefit Dutch sports as the Netherlands has struggled before in games like skiing and bobsledding a 2 kilometer tall mountain would also enable Dutch athletes to train at higher altitudes at home instead of going somewhere else to train a 2 kilometer tall giant man made mountain would also probably become a pretty big tourist attraction as it would easily become the tallest man made structure ever build the Burj Khalifa
the current man made structure in the world is only 828 meters tall witch is less than half the height that this mountain would be it was also suggested that the mountain could provide a huge surface to place solar panels on in addition to windmills at higher altitudes witch together could provide Europe with an enormous amount of clean and renewable energy but the most hilarious part about the construction
of this mountain would be the numerous problems that it would probably cause first of all it actually probably possible to build something like this in real life if the mountain was solid though it would tak up an insane 7.7 billion cubic meters
of sand and rocks reacquiring that much material is actually doable but the estimated price tag of over 7 trillion dollars to finish the mountain when accounting for all the time and labor that it would take just makes it seem silly for reference NASA has estimated before that the price to establish a permanently manned base on mars would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 trillion dollars so we could either send hundreds of people to Mars and establish multiple bases
or give the Dutch a mountain so their athletes don’t have to travel to Ostria to train for winter sports
its a pretty tough choice, but consider also what the mountain would do
to the surrounding country side concentrating that much material that’s mostly flat
and below sea level would probably affect all the land in a 50 kilometer radius around it all of that land could sink by as much as 100 meters witch would put it almost certainly below sea level
witch means yeah the mountain would probably turn into an island surrounded by a lake this lead designers to propose reclaiming more land form the sea and building the mountain just off the coast of the Netherlands but this just brought up even more problems building anywhere here off the coast of Zeeland
or in this lake was determined that it would too badly effect shipping routes near the port of Rotterdam and building in this lake would create a weird tall obstacle for pilots landing nearby Amsterdam Schiphol airport basically the geography
of the Netherlands is flat for a reason and there is really no good place for a mountain
in the middle of nowhere this led Zonneveld and some of the designers suggesting a smaller mountain just 1 kilometer tall
or even one just 300 meters tall but a 300 meter tall mountain is less of a mountain and more of a hill isn’t it? over the past 2 years that i have been making videos
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Where are you from? U sound like ur from the netherlands cuz why u have a windmill as profile picture? The Netherlands is mostly known for windmills and bcuz u have a bit of videos on the netherlands and can say these dutch words really good

I visited the Netherlands and when getting directions from a local, he said we would turn right at the top of the hill. We went up a speed bump, and the road no longer went straight, so we were very confused for a moment. The speed bump, or, perhaps generously, a ‘slope’, was a hill for them.

Some one in Netherland: we need to build a mountain for SkiingGovernment: who the heck plan this RealLifeLore: bring the pic of the guy who suggest it (a middle age man driving a children's bike) Government: good plan how muchGovernment official: 7T usd

I know you guys probably see something different but I'm getting tired of those BMW commercials. I mean if you are going to have a woman speaking half English and half Spanish at least make it sound good